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Watch the making of the VFX for The Troll Hunter

Shaun the stunt sheep practises his footwork for a scene in cult mockumentary The Troll Hunter.

One of last year’s most pleasant surprises at the cinema was Norwegian action comedy The Troll Hunter.

A Blair Witch-style mockumentary about a secret government agency dedicated to culling wild trolls, The Troll Hunter boasts some impressive creature effects for a low-budget film – particularly when you consider the VFX team for one of the key sequences consisted of just two people.

Max Underground has just published a great article by Rune Spaans on how those effects were created, which should be required reading for anyone thinking of setting up a 3ds Max pipeline.

As well as some insights into using Dropbox and Spaans’ own Super Tools script collection, the article features some lovely work-in-progress videos of Shaun, the movie’s ‘stunt sheep’.